UT Nutritional Sciences professor Michele Hockett Cooper takes us from the sun-drenched tables of Sicily to school gardens right here in Austin, exploring how hands-on food experiences shape the way ...

The UT Association of Lab Managers presents a seminar to learn about water quality and its application in research.

Hong Qiao, a plant researcher, explains the science behind produce ripening, and how anyone can prolong shelf life. In order to maximize shelf life, there are strategies for storing produce.

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

Just as humans cannot breathe underwater, the tiny pores of plants can't exchange air underwater. Even worse, having pores under water promotes the entry of water, microbes and other undesirable ...

The study identifies an ancestral population in Central Siberia linked to the origin of Uralic languages. Warrior funeral with bone armor plates in the Kyordyughen site in Central Siberia, from about ...

An era of precision gravitational astronomy has arrived, and UT physicists are helping lead the way. Researcher working on one of the mirrors of the Virgo gravitational wave detector. Photo credit: ...

Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Seagrasses are more efficient at storing carbon in the soil or sediment, ...

Deaths from coal were highest in 1999, but by 2020 decreased by about 95%, as coal plants have installed scrubbers or shut down. From 1999–2020, approximately 460,000 deaths in the Medicare population ...

New research from Simon Brandl at UT’s Marine Science Institute challenges a long-held belief about coral reefs. Coral reef in the Maldives. Credit: Jordan M. Casey/University of Texas at Austin.

Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community. Every year, the College of Natural Sciences recognizes a select group of graduating ...

Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin How humans perceive the world ...